Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Kids These Days - vs. Blue Jays ( W 7-6, L 4-8, L 1-5)

Time for new memos in the home Comiskey clubhouse. 16x20, framed,
bold, multiple copies to each infielder…

Always yield to your outfielder

ALWAYS YIELD TO YOUR
OUTFIELDER

ALWAYS YIELD TO YOUR OUTFIELDER

The heart attack symptoms have worn off
since Monday, so it won’t be more than a couple days off for Yoan in a one step
on the shallow end ladder entrance to the big leagues. A play like that involving your top prospect
will make you question where the nearest defibrillator is, me watching Twitter
like a hawk after. The true outcome: rookie Moncada making a rookie mistake,
which Willy unfortunately took the brunt of.

It happens. It also shouldn’t
affect the timeline for our other prospects, whatever each one might be. Aren’t going to become major leaguers playing
in a bubble.

And we got a win out of it! I
personally don’t care if we lose out, but post-collision, that’s a win I wanted to see. I haven’t brought
up Davidson much here given his uncertainty in the 2020 plan- third baseman is
the most likely future external hire for Rick given Donaldson and Machado’s upcoming
free agency. Write Sox also has a great tweet comparing his stats to Josh
Fields of 2007, and it’s a near mirror image. 22 home runs is 22 home runs, well
worth a long tryout based on this year. Games like Sunday and Monday also make
you forget the strikeouts pretty fast. Put that win on Renteria’s resume- these
guys really don’t quit under him.

The next two games were rebuild as
scheduled. Opposing home runs, strikeouts,
men left on base (today’s leadoff triple not scoring especially brutal)- all a
day in the life at this point. Holland had the quasi-rebound start I was hoping
for: way too many strikeouts and men left on to help him out today. Tankers
gonna tank, and grab some bench ten times.

Biggest big picture news
(unfortunately because of Garcia’s injury) was Delmonico’s call up. Did well
for the first two games: clearly some jitters, especially yesterday, but some
very solid contact. Ozzie mentioned it in the postgame Monday: it’s good to
have prospects come up and struggle against good teams, and this part of
Toronto’s rotation followed by a four game set in Boston would be just that. Not expecting much over the Mendoza with this
upcoming small sample size, with Tuesday making me feel a little more
optimistic about something in the .260-.270 range. Short fences to right in Fenway
if he wants to get some power on that swing, provided Austin Jackson isn’t
roaming around center.